In the first known interaction between the two nations, the ancient Persians freed the Jews from captivity in Babylon.

"100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" shows a sampling of the institutes archive.

Zias, published in the journal Levant, reveals how ancient Phoenicians may have incorporated cleansing into their religious ...

If writers should be judged by their words, then Tom Arnold-Foster’s comprehensive and engaging “intellectual biography” of the legendary journalist Walter Lippmann renders a complete, balanced, and ...

The millennia-old community of some 15,000, the Mideast's largest outside Israel, condemns Israel's preemptive strikes on the ...

She is continuing to create work with Jewish themes, even though she is up against antisemitism in the art world as well.

It should be a strip of land open to all, not something closed,” says Meir Dana-Picard, a leader of the 2005 resistance ...

While the Western Wall and Temple Mount are closed off along with the rest of the ancient quarters for security reasons, the ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

Archaeologists have identified Egyptian Pharaoh Siamun as the one who probably gave the ancient city of Gezer as a dowry to ...

This is when he discovered his love of books. As an adult, David devoted himself to collecting and studying ancient Jewish manuscripts from around the world. He amassed the most valuable private ...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) — masks, Tyvek aprons and sleeves, gloves — was mandatory for the conservators, who were ...